What a long day! Months ago, we booked our flights, we decided to pay a little extra, so we did not have to get up in the middle of the night to drive to the airport, yes, we booked a flight that leaves around 10:00 am which would get us to CHS around 11:30, plenty of time to pick up the rental car, stop at total wine, drive thru BiLo then to HT, and ultimately arriving in paradise! As we all know getting to paradise at times can turn into an adventure in itself. We as one might expect Friday evening about 7:00 pm, I get a text from the airlines saying that our flight has been canceled, you we were rebooked on a flight that leaves at 7:10 am. Oh well let the fun begin. This is still doable, just means be at the airport at 6:10, then that means leave the house at 4:10, which means getting up at 3:10. Still not the best but doable, just need to put the bottle of Rex away, let 62 and 621 know that they need to be at our house at 4:00am, and pack my bags. Sounds very simple, but as you might guess nothing is simple. Fast forward, arrived at the gate at 6:15, plane scheduled to leave on time, all is good! Need some coffee, on the way to the gate 6 noticed that nothing was open, in the back of my mind 6 was thinking that it was too early and everything would probably open at 6:00, wrong! All of the vendors in the concourse would not open until 9:00 am because of covid. No food no coffee, what the heck are we going to do. Well only 40 minutes and we can get something on the plane. Well one thing that is nice about traveling with 621 is that we were able to board the plane with the second group! Brings me back to the days when 6 traveled 1st class and was in the first group! We all got on the plane, they closed the doors pushed us back from the gate and we sat there, I was thinking that they wanted to give us a bonus and let us see the sun raise over the Potomac! Well the sun did raise, but we just continued to sit there. Yeh, we are moving! The bad thing that I left out is this new flight is not a direct flight to CHS, we get to go from DCA to CLT then to CHS. We sat in DCA a longer time than it took to fly to CLT! Leg one over, now it’s time to find some coffee and something to eat. (6 has to take his back pills and he can’t take them on an empty stomach). Off the plane, found some coffee and food! Now we just have to wait for several hours to get our flight to CHS, it is scheduled to arrive at 6:00. No worries, car will still be there, total wine doesn’t close until 8:00, we can go to Bi Lo and HT on Sunday. We ate our breakfast, then we ate lunch, and even got some dinner. We boarded the plane, took off for CHS and landed at 6:30. The rental car line was short, total wine, was fine, then the rain came! What a drive to paradise…. Roads were flooded, the sun was going down, but we finally made it! Upon reflection we could have driven to paradise for ½ the time.
We finally did make it to paradise, but the sun was down, and sadly one day lost of our precious beach time.
Words of wisdom: Travel can be difficult, but safety cannot be taken for granted, in the end the final destination is the most important.
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